Job Layoffs

Florida employers laid off 561 workers in October compared with 1,510 a year ago, a 63 percent decrease, according to a monthly job-cut report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Job cuts in South Florida included 125 at nonprofit Gulfstream Goodwill Industries in West Palm Beach, 51 at computer services company NTT America in Boca Raton, and 112 at pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. in Miami Lakes.

For the nine months of 2016, Florida had 11,169 planned layoffs, a 17 percent decrease from 13,426 in the same period in 2015.

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